Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Fish Consumption Advisories - 2020
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Revised: August 7, 2019 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORIES - 2020 DELAWARE RIVER BASIN Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant Belmont Lake (Wayne Co.) Entire Lake Rock Bass 1 meal/month Mercury Beltzville Lake (Beltzville State Park) Entire Lake Walleye 2 meals/month Mercury (Carbon Co.) Brodhead Creek (Monroe Co.) Entire Basin Rock Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Brady’s Lake (Monroe Co.) Entire Lake Chain pickerel 6 meals/year Mercury Yellow perch 1 meal/month Bushkill Creek (Monroe and Pike Co.) Entire Basin American eel 2 meals/month Mercury All suckers Chester Creek (Delaware Co.) Confluence of W. Br. Chester Channel catfish 2 meals/month Mercury Ck. To Mouth American eel Darby Creek (Delaware and Philadelphia Entire Basin Channel catfish 1 meal/month PCB Co.) Delaware River Source to Trenton, NJ- Rock bass 2 meals/month Mercury Morrisville, PA bridge Walleye > 17” Smallmouth bass 1 meal/month Delaware Estuary, including the tidal Trenton, NJ-Morrisville, PA White perch 1 meal/month PCB portion of all PA tributaries and the Bridge to PA/DE border Channel catfish Schuylkill River to the Fairmount Dam Flathead catfish (Bucks, Philadelphia, & Delaware Co.) Striped bass > 28” Carp 6 meals/year PCB American eel Do Not Eat PCB Hickory Lake (Wayne Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Smallmouth bass Lake Maskenozha (Pike Co.) Entire Lake Yellow perch 2 meals/month Mercury Lake Wallenpaupack (Pike & Wayne Co.) Entire Lake Walleye 1 meal/month Mercury Lake Towhee (Bucks Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals /month Mercury Lehigh River (Northampton Co.) Confluence of Saucon Creek Carp 1 meal/month PCB to mouth American eel Little Bushkill Creek Lake Maskenozha to mouth American eel 2 meals/month Mercury Little Neshaminy Creek (Bucks Co.) Entire Basin Carp 1 meal/month PCB Long Pond (Wayne Co.) Entire Lake Walleye 1 meal/month Mercury Marsh Creek Lake (Chester Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Miller Pond (Wayne Co.) Entire Lake Chain pickerel 1 meal/month Mercury Largemouth bass Yellow perch 2 meals/month Promised Land Lake (Promised Land State Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Park) (Pike Co.) Prompton Reservoir (W. Br. Lackawaxen Entire Lake Largemouth bass 1 meal/month Mercury River) (Wayne Co.) Walleye 2 meals/month Red Clay Creek (Chester Co.) Entire Basin Based on All species 3 meals/year PCB advisories issued by DDT Delaware Dept. of Natural Dioxins Resources and Environmental Chlorinated- Control Pesticides - 1 - Revised: August 7, 2019 Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant Schuylkill River (Schuylkill Co.) Confluence of Mill Cr. at Trout 1 meal/month PCB Port Carbon to Auburn Dam Schuylkill River (Schuylkill & Berks Co.) Confluence of Mahannon Cr. Brown bullhead 1 meal/month PCB at Landingville to Kernsville All suckers Dam Schuylkill River (Berks Co.) Kernsville Dam to Maiden All suckers 1 meal/month PCB Creek Schuylkill River (Berks, Chester, & Confluence of Maiden Creek All suckers 1 meal/month PCB Montgomery Co.) to Black Rock Dam above Carp 6 meals/year PCB Phoenixville Channel catfish Schuylkill River (Chester, Montgomery, & Black Rock Dam to Carp Do Not Eat PCB Philadelphia Co.) Fairmount Dam in American eel Philadelphia All suckers 1 meal/month Channel catfish Flathead catfish Corbicula (Asiatic clam) – *The harvest of live mussels and clams in Pennsylvania is prohibited. Schuylkill River (Berks, Chester, Confluence of Maiden Creek American eel Do Not Eat PCB Montgomery & Philadelphia Co.) to Fairmount Dam All suckers 1 meal/month Shohola Lake (Pike Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 1 meal/month Mercury Stairway Pond (Pike Co.) Entire Pond Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Tobyhanna Creek (Carbon and Monroe Pocono Lake dam to mouth Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Co.) West Branch Brandywine Creek (Chester From business Rt. 30 American eel 1 meal/month PCB Co.) (Lincoln Highway) in Coatesville to confluence of Buck Run West Branch Schuylkill River (Schuylkill Entire Basin Brook trout 1 meal/month PCB Co.) White Clay Creek Entire Basin American eel 2 meals/month Mercury White Oak Pond (Wayne Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant Beechwood Lake (Tioga Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Black Moshannon State Park Lake (Centre Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Co.) Chain pickerel Bearwallow Pond (Sullivan Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Chain pickerel Chemung River (Bradford Co.) NY/PA border to mouth Channel catfish 2 meals/month Mercury Smallmouth bass 1 meal/month Conestoga River (Lancaster Co.) Slackwater to mouth Rock bass 2 meals/month Mercury - 2 - Revised: August 7, 2019 Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant Cowanesque River and Reservoir (Tioga Cowanesque River Mouth to Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Co.) PA/NY border Black crappie 1 meal/month Yellow perch Largemouth bass Elk Lake (Sullivan County) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Chain Pickerel First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek-George Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury B. Stevenson Dam (Sinnemahoning State Park) (Cameron & Potter Co.) First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek (Cameron George B. Stevenson Dam to Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Co.) mouth Francis Slocum Lake (Luzerne Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Hunters Lake (Sullivan Co.) Entire Lake All Species 2 meals/month Mercury Jacks Creek (Mifflin Co.) Paintersville Bridge to mouth Bluegill 1 meal/month PCB Rock bass Fallfish Kettle Creek Lake (Kettle Creek State Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Park) (Clinton Co.) Black crappie Yellow perch Kettle Creek (Clinton Co.) Alvin R. Bush Dam to mouth Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Lackawanna Lake (Lackawanna State Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Park) (Lackawanna Co.) Lake Jean (UNT Kitchen Cr.) (Ricketts Entire Lake Chain pickerel 1 meal/month Mercury Glen State Park, Sullivan and Luzerne Co.) Largemouth bass Yellow perch 2 meals/month Lake Makoma (Mill Cr.) (Sullivan Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Lake Winola (Wyoming Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Laurel Lake (Cumberland Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Lily Lake (Luzerne Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Little Pine Creek (Clinton Co.) Entire Basin Yellow Perch 2 meals/ month Mercury Logan Branch (Centre Co.) Axemann to mouth Brown trout 1 meal/month PCB Lyman Run Reservoir (Potter Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 1 meal/month Mercury Maple Lake (Lackawanna Co.) Entire Lake Chain pickerel 2 meals/month Mercury McWilliams Reservoir (Northumberland Entire Reservoir Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury and Columbia Co.) Mountain Mud Pond (Merli_Sarnoski Entire lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Park) (Lackawanna Co.) Pine Creek (Tioga Co.) Confluence of Painter Run to Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury confluence of Fourmile Run near Colton Point State Park Shumans Lake (Sullivan Co.) Entire Lake Chain pickerel 2 meals/month Mercury Silver Lake (Susquehanna Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Stephen Foster Lake (Bradford Co.) Entire Lake Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Sugar Creek (Bradford Co.) Confluence of Bailey Run to Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury mouth - 3 - Revised: August 7, 2019 Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant Sunfish Pond (Bradford Co.) Entire Pond Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Yellow perch Susquehanna River (Susquehanna Co.) Entire section in PA from the Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury NY border above Starrucca Fallfish Creek to the NY border below Great Bend Susquehanna River (Bradford and NY border above Sayre to Walleye 1 meal/month Mercury Wyoming Co.) PA Route 92 bridge at Falls Smallmouth bass Channel catfish 1 meal/month PCB Carp Susquehanna River (Wyoming, PA Route 92 bridge at Falls Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Lackawanna, Luzerne, Columbia, to confluence with West All suckers Do Not Eat PCB Northumberland, and Montour Co.) Branch Channel catfish 1 meal/month Quillback and Carp Walleye Susquehanna River (Snyder, West Branch to PA/MD Channel catfish > 20” 1 meal/month PCB Northumberland, Juniata, Perry, Dauphin, border Flathead catfish > Cumberland, York, and Lancaster Co.) 30” Flathead catfish > Mercury 30” Tioga Reservoir (Tioga Co.) Entire Reservior Largemouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Towanda Creek (Bradford Co.) Confluence of Schrader Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Creek to mouth Trindle Spring Run (locally Silver Spring Silver Spring Meeting House All trout 1 meal/month PCB Run) (Cumberland Co.) to mouth (approx. 1 mile) Tunkhannock Creek (Wyoming Co.) Confluence of South Branch Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury to mouth Tuscarora Creek (Juniata Co.) SR 3008 bridge above Port Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury Royal to mouth West Branch Susquehanna River (Clinton, Bald Eagle Creek to Lycoming, Union and Northumberland confluence with Susquehanna Walleye 2 meals/month Mercury Co.) River White Deer Creek (Clinton, Centre, Union Entire Basin Brown trout 2 meals/month Mercury Co.) Wyalusing Creek (Bradford Co.) SR 0706 bridge at Camptown Smallmouth bass 2 meals/month Mercury to mouth Yellow Breeches Creek (Cumberland Co.) SR 3017 bridge at Huntsdale